Word: neutralistic
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...moment of profoundest meaning came at an outdoor "civic reception" in New Delhi. When Ike, with Nehru, stepped up to the speaker's stand, he blinked and shook his head in astonishment; the crowd reached farther than eye could see. In neutralist India, Eisenhower invoked the memory of India's saint, implied that Gandhi himself would today favor the dynamics of strength: "America's right, our obligations, for that matter, to maintain a respectable establishment for defense?our duty to join in company with like-thinking peoples for mutual self-defense?would, I am sure, be recognized and upheld...
...panoply Pakistan's Ayub had a case to sell to the President: the Kashmir question. General Ayub tried to convince the President that India's Nehru must consent to the reopening of negotiations on the disputed land. After all, Pakistan is a U.S. ally while India is neutralist, ran the argument, so Pakistan deserves U.S. support. Ike listened carefully but was noncommittal...
...session of India's Parliament next day seemed a world apart. Ike's speech to Parliament had been planned as the highlight of his Asian trip but it got only a lukewarm reception (13 desk-banging applause interruptions), partly because it said some things about force that neutralist Indians did not particularly want to hear, left unsaid some others-such as a massive foreign-aid commitment or a resounding promise to fight beside India in case of Chinese invasion-that they wanted very much to hear...
...Neutralist Nkrumah, with Partner Sékou Touré in neighboring Guinea, would like to build an "independent" union movement in Africa and cut labor ties with the free world's International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, but many suspect this merely conceals an inclination to affiliate with a Communist-backed rival, the World Federation of Trade Unions. Mboya's union headquarters in Nairobi was built with $35,000 contributed by U.S. unions, and Mboya himself is a staunch supporter of I.C.F.T.U. as well as chairman of its union organization in East, Central and Southern Africa...
...sent a special agent pretending to be a scientist to Indonesia to fan up an anti-China campaign . . ." But the truth was that if Mao and Chen Yi and Ambassador Huang were themselves U.S. secret agents, they could hardly have done a better job of arousing neutralist Indonesia against Red China...